Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2009 |
The Los Angeles Film Critics (LAFC) caused a shock when they announced their winners in naming Wall-E as Best Film. Unfortunately for Pixar the LAFC are terrible at picking the Best Film getting none the same as the Academy in the last six years. Where the LAFC is normally good at predicting the Oscar is in the Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, Best Actor and Best Actress. Therefore Man on Wire, Waltz with Bashir, Sean Penn and Sally Hawkins will be looking at least at a nomination. They may have messed up on the animated award as Wall-E would have won if they hadn't given it the Best Film award. This may go against them and mess up a very good record in the animated area. |
Best Film: Wall-E directed by Andrew Stanton Runner-up: The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan Best Foreign-Language Film: Still Life directed by Jia Zhangke Runner-up: The Class directed by Laurent Cantet Best Documentary: Man on Wire directed by James Marsh Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir directed by Ari Folman Best Animated Film: Waltz with Bashir Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Runner-up: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky Runner-up: Melissa Leo, Frozen River Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Elegy Runner-up: Viola Davis, Doubt Best supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Runner-up: Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky Best Screenplay: Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York Best Cinematography: Lik Wai Yu, Still Life Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantel, Slumdog Millionaire Best Production Design: Mark Friedberg, Synecdoche, New York Runner-up: Nathan Crowley, The Dark Knight Best Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Career Achievement: John Calley New Generation Award: Steve McQueen, Hunger Douglas E. Edwards Award (for experimental films): James Benning, RR and Casting a Glance
Website: http://www.lafca.net/ Announced December 9th 2008 |
